which of the following media used today is similar to drawing media used by prehistoric people?

Mass media is the near powerful tool used by the ruling form to manipulate the masses. It shapes and molds opinions and attitudes and defines what is normal and adequate. This commodity looks at the workings of mass media through the theories of its major thinkers, its ability structure and the techniques it uses, in society to sympathize its true role in society.

Most of the manufactures on this site hash out occult symbolism found in objects of popular civilisation. From these manufactures arise many legitimate questions relating to the purpose of those symbols and the motivations of those who place them there, just it is impossible for me to provide satisfactory answers to these questions without mentioning many other concepts and facts. This article explores the theoretical and methodological background of the analyses presented on this site besides every bit introducing the main scholars of the field of mass communications. Some people read my articles and think I'm saying "Lady Gaga wants to control our minds". That is not the example. She is simply a small-scale function of the huge system that is the mass media.

Programming Through Mass Media

Mass media are media forms designed to reach the largest audience possible. They include television, movies, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, records, video games and the internet. Many studies have been conducted in the past century to measure the effects of mass media on the population in lodge to observe the all-time techniques to influence it. From those studies emerged the science of Communications, which is used in marketing, public relations and politics. Mass communication is a necessary tool to ensure the functionality of a large republic; information technology is also a necessary tool for a dictatorship. It all depends on its usage.

In the 1958 preface to A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley paints a rather grim portrait of guild. He believes it is controlled by an "impersonal force", a ruling elite, which manipulates the population using diverse methods.

"Impersonal forces over which nosotros take almost no command seem to be pushing united states all in the management of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who accept developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses."
– Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

His bleak outlook is not a simple hypothesis or a paranoid delusion. It is a documented fact, present in the world'due south most important studies on mass media. Here are some of them:

Elite Thinkers

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippman.

Walter Lippmann, an American intellectual, writer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner brought forth 1 of the first works concerning the usage of mass media in America. In Public Opinion (1922), Lippmann compared the masses to a "great brute" and a "bewildered herd" that needed to be guided by a governing grade. He described the ruling elite every bit "a specialized class whose interests reach across the locality." This class is composed of experts, specialists, and bureaucrats. According to Lippmann, the experts, who ofttimes are referred to every bit "elites," are to exist a machinery of noesis that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the "omnicompetent citizen." The trampling and roaring "bewildered herd" has its office: to be "the interested spectators of action," i.e. not participants. Participation is the duty of "the responsible man", which is not a regular citizen.

Mass media and propaganda are therefore tools that must be used by the aristocracy to rule the public without physical coercion. 1 of import concept presented by Lippmann is the "manufacture of consent", which is, in short, the manipulation of public opinion to take the elite's agenda. It is Lippmann's opinion that the general public is not qualified to reason and to decide on of import issues. Information technology is therefore of import for the elite to decide "for its own good" and then sell those decisions to the masses.

"That the manufacture of consent is capable of peachy refinements no 1, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions ascend is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are patently enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the mod means of communication, the do of commonwealth has turned a corner. A revolution is taking identify, infinitely more than pregnant than whatsoever shifting of economical power. . . . Under the touch on of propaganda, not necessarily in the sinister meaning of the discussion alone, the sometime constants of our thinking have become variables. It is no longer possible, for example, to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the knowledge needed for the management of human being affairs comes up spontaneously from the human heart. Where we act on that theory we expose ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we cannot verify. Information technology has been demonstrated that nosotros cannot rely upon intuition, conscience, or the accidents of coincidental stance if nosotros are to deal with the world beyond our reach."
–Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion

It might be interesting to note that Lippmann is one of the founding fathers of the Council on Strange Relations (CFR), the nearly influential foreign policy think tank in the world. This fact should give you a small hint of the listen state of the elite concerning the usage of media.

"Political and economical power in the United States is full-bodied in the hands of a "ruling elite" that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major advice media, the virtually influential foundations, major private universities and virtually public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Quango of Strange Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal regime. It has been chosen a "school for statesmen" and "comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Aristocracy – a group of men, similar in interest and outlook shaping events from invulnerable positions backside the scenes. The creation of the United nations was a Quango project, also as the Imf and the World Bank."
– Steve Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States

Some current members of the CFR include David Rockefeller, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, mega-church pastor Rick Warren and the CEOs of major corporations such as CBS, Nike, Coca-Cola, and Visa.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung.

Carl Jung is the founder of analytical psychology (also known every bit Jungian psychology), which emphasizes understanding the psyche by exploring dreams, fine art, mythology, religion, symbols, and philosophy. The Swiss therapist is at the origin of many psychological concepts used today such as the Archetype, the Complex, the Persona, the Introvert/Extrovert, and Synchronicity. He was highly influenced by the occult background of his family. Carl Gustav, his grandpa, was an avid Freemason (he was Grand Chief) and Jung himself discovered that some of his ancestors were Rosicrucians. This might explain his slap-up interest in Eastern and Western philosophy, abracadabra, astrology and symbolism. One of his well-nigh important (and misunderstood) concepts was the Collective Unconscious.

"My thesis, and so, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to exist the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), in that location exists a 2d psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This commonage unconscious does not develop individually just is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can but go witting secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents."
– Carl Jung, The Concept of the Collective Unconscious

The collective unconscious transpires through the existence of similar symbols and mythological figures in dissimilar civilizations. Archetypal symbols seem to be embedded in our collective hidden, and, when exposed to them, we demonstrate natural attraction and fascination. Occult symbols can, therefore, exert a great impact on people, fifty-fifty if many individuals were never personally introduced to the symbol's esoteric meaning. Mass media thinkers, such equally Edward D. Bernays, found in this concept a great way to dispense the public's personal and commonage unconscious.

Edward  Bernays

Edward Bernays.

Edward Bernays is considered to be the "male parent of public relations" and used concepts discovered by his uncle Sigmund Freud to manipulate the public using the subconscious. He shared Walter Lippmann's view of the general population by considering it irrational and subject to the "herd instinct". In his stance, the masses demand to exist manipulated past an invisible government to ensure the survival of democracy.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic lodge. Those who manipulate this unseen machinery of lodge constitute an invisible regime which is the true ruling power of our state.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical consequence of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning guild.

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their beau members in the inner cabinet."
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

Bernay's trailblazing marketing campaigns greatly inverse the operation of American society. He basically created "consumerism" past creating a civilization wherein Americans bought for pleasance instead of buying for survival. For this reason, he was considered by Life Magazine to be in the Top 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century.

Harold Lasswell

Harold Lasswell.

In 1939-1940, the University of Chicago was the host of a series of secret seminars on communications. These think tanks were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and involved the most prominent researchers in the fields of communications and sociological studies. One of these scholars was Harold Lasswell, a leading American political scientist, and communications theorist, specializing in the assay of propaganda. He was also of the opinion that a democracy, a authorities ruled by the people, could not sustain itself without a specialized elite shaping and molding public opinion through propaganda.

In his Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Lasswell explained that when elites lack the requisite force to hogtie obedience, social managers must turn to "a whole new technique of control, largely through propaganda." He added the conventional justification: we must recognize the "ignorance and stupidity [of] … the masses and not succumb to democratic dogmatisms about men being the all-time judges of their own interests."

Lasswell extensively studied the field of content analysis in gild to understand the effectiveness of unlike types of propaganda.  In his essay Contents of Advice, Lasswell explained that, in gild to sympathise the meaning of a bulletin (i.e. a movie, a speech, a book, etc.), one should have into account the frequency with which sure symbols appear in the bulletin, the direction in which the symbols endeavor to persuade the audience'southward opinion, and the intensity of the symbols used.

Lasswell was famous for his media analysis model based on:

Who (says) What (to) Whom (in) What Channel (with) What Upshot

Past this model, Lasswell indicates that in order to properly clarify a media production, 1 must look at who produced the product (the people who ordered its creation), who was it aimed at (the target audience) and what were the desired effects of this product (to inform, to convince, to sell, etc.) on the audience.

Using a Rihanna video as an case, the analysis would be as follows: WHO PRODUCED: Vivendi Universal; WHAT: pop artist Rihanna; TO WHOM: consumers between the ages of nine and 25; WHAT CHANNEL: music video; and WHAT EFFECT: selling the creative person, her vocal, her epitome and her message.

The analyzes of videos and movies on The Vigilant Citizen place great importance on the "who is behind" the messages communicated to the public. The term "Illuminati" is ofttimes used to describe this minor elite group covertly ruling the masses. Although the term sounds quite caricatured and conspiratorial, information technology aptly describes the elite's affinities with secret societies and occult knowledge. However, I personally detest using the term "conspiracy theory" to describe what is happening in the mass media. If all the facts concerning the elitist nature of the industry are readily bachelor to the public, tin can it still be considered a  "conspiracy theory"?

There used to be a variety of viewpoints, ideas, and opinions in popular civilisation. The consolidation of media corporations has, however, produced a standardization of the cultural industry. Ever wondered why all contempo music sounds the same and all recent movies look the aforementioned? The following is part of the reply:

Media Buying

Equally depicted in the graph to a higher place, the number of corporations owning the majority of U.S. media outlets went from 50 to 5 in less than 20 years. Here are the top corporations evolving around the world and the assets they own.

1- AOL Time Warner

"A listing of the properties controlled by AOL Time Warner takes ten typed pages listing 292 dissever companies and subsidiaries. Of these, twenty-two are joint ventures with other major corporations involved in varying degrees with media operations. These partners include 3Com, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Ticketmaster, American Express, Homestore, Sony, Viva, Bertelsmann, Polygram, and Amazon.com. Some of the more than familiar fully owned properties of Time Warner include Book-of-the-Month Society; Little, Brown publishers; HBO, with its seven channels; CNN; vii specialized and strange-linguistic communication channels; Road Runner; Warner Brothers Studios; Weight Watchers; Popular Science; and l-two different record labels."
– Ben Bagdikan, The New Media Monopoly

AOL Time Warner owns:

• 64 magazines, including Time, Life, People, MAD Magazine and DC Comics
• Warner Bros, New Line and Fine Line Features in movie house
• More than 40 music labels including Warner Bros, Atlantic and Elektra
• Many television networks such as WB Networks, HBO, Cinemax, TNT, Cartoon Network and CNN
• Madonna, Sean Paul, The White Stripes

two- Viacom

Viacom owns:

• CBS, MTV, MTV2, UPN, VH1, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, TNN, CMT and BET
• Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon Movies, MTV Films
• Blockbuster Videos
• 1800 screens in theaters through Famous Players

3- The Walt Disney Company

"Disney ownership of a hockey squad called The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim does not begin to describe the vastness of the kingdom. Hollywood is still its symbolic heart, with eight movie product studios and distributors: Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Miramax, Buena Vista Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista International, Hollywood Pictures, and Caravan Pictures.

The Walt Disney Company controls 8 book business firm imprints under Walt Disney Company Book Publishing and ABC Publishing Group; seventeen magazines; the ABC Idiot box Network, with ten owned and operated stations of its ain including in the five top markets; thirty radio stations, including all the major markets; 11 cable channels, including Disney, ESPN (jointly), A&E, and the History Channel; xiii international broadcast channels stretching from Commonwealth of australia to Brazil; seven production and sports units around the earth; and seventeen Internet sites, including the ABC group, ESPN.sportszone, NFL.com, NBAZ.com, and NASCAR.com. Its v music groups include the Buena Vista, Lyric Street, and Walt Disney labels, and live theater productions growing out of the movies The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and King David."
– Ibid

The Walt Disney Company owns:

• ABC, Disney Channel, ESPN, A&E, History Channel
• Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Film Corp., Dimension and Buena Vista International
• Miley Cyrus/ Hannah Montana, Selena Gomez, Jonas Brothers

four- Vivendi Universal

Vivendi Universal owns:

• 27% of United states music sales, labels include: Interscope, Geffen, A&M, Island, Def Jam, MCA, Mercury, Motown and Universal
• Universal Studios, Studio Canal, Polygram Films, Culvert +
• Numerous internet and cell phone companies
• Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Lil Wayne, Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Jay-Z

5- Sony

Sony owns:

• Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics
• 15% of United states of america Music sales, labels include Columbia, Ballsy, Sony, Arista, Jive and RCA Records
• Beyonce, Shakira, Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera

A limited number of actors in the cultural industry means a limited corporeality of viewpoints and ideas making their mode to the full general public. It also ways that a unmarried message can easily saturate all forms of media to generate consent (i.eastward. "there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq").

The Standardization of Human Thought

An advert for a television set. Symbolic.

The merger of media companies in the last decades generated a small oligarchy of media conglomerates. The TV shows we follow, the music we listen to, the movies we scout and the newspapers nosotros read are all produced by V corporations. The owners of those conglomerates have shut ties with the world's elite and, in many means, they ARE the elite. By owning all of the possible outlets having the potential to reach the masses, these conglomerates have the ability to create in the minds of the people a single and cohesive worldview, engendering a "standardization of human thought".

Even movements or styles that are considered marginal are, in fact, extensions of mainstream thinking. Mass media produce their own rebels who definitely look the role only are still office of the establishment and do not question whatever of it. Artists, creations, and ideas that do not fit the mainstream fashion of thinking are mercilessly rejected and forgotten past the conglomerates, which in plough makes them virtually disappear from society itself. However, ideas that are deemed to exist valid and desirable to be accustomed by gild are skillfully marketed to the masses in order to brand them get a self-evident norm.

In 1928, Edward Bernays already saw the immense potential of motion pictures to standardize thought:

"The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the earth today. It is a peachy benefactor for ideas and opinions. The movement picture tin can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are fabricated to meet market demands, they reverberate, emphasize and even exaggerate wide popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. Equally the paper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment."
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

These facts were flagged as dangers to human freedom in the 1930's by thinkers of the school of Frankfurt such every bit Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse. They identified three main bug with the cultural industry. The manufacture can:

1. reduce man beings to the state of mass by hindering the development of emancipated individuals, who are capable of making rational decisions;
2. replace the legitimate drive for autonomy and cocky-awareness by the safe laziness of conformism and passivity; and
3. validate the thought that men actually seek to escape the absurd and cruel world in which they live past losing themselves in a hypnotic state self-satisfaction.

The notion of escapism is even more than relevant today with the advent of online video games, 3D movies, and domicile theaters. The masses, constantly seeking state-of-the-art entertainment, will resort to high-upkeep products that can only be produced by the biggest media corporations in the globe. These products contain carefully calculated letters and symbols which are nothing more and zilch less than entertaining propaganda. The public has been trained to LOVE its propaganda to the extent that it spends its hard-earned money to be exposed to it. Propaganda (used in both political, cultural and commercial sense) is no longer the coercive or authoritative communication form institute in dictatorships: it has become the synonym of entertainment and pleasance.

"In regard to propaganda, the early on advocates of universal literacy and a gratuitous press envisaged only ii possibilities: the propaganda might exist true, or it might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies — the development of a vast mass communications manufacture, concerned in the main neither with the truthful nor the fake, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account homo'due south almost space ambition for distractions."
– Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New Globe

A unmarried slice of media often does non have a lasting consequence on the human psyche. Mass media, however, by its omnipresent nature, creates a living environment nosotros evolve in on a daily basis. Information technology defines the norm and excludes the undesirable. The same way railroad vehicle horses wearable blinders so they tin only see what is right in front of them, the masses can only meet where they are supposed to go.

"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the apply of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda about unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant surroundings. Mass media provides the essential link between the private and the demands of the technological gild."
– Jacques Ellul

One of the reasons mass media successfully influences gild is due to the extensive amount of research on cognitive sciences and human nature that has been practical to it.

Manipulation Techniques

"Publicity is the deliberate endeavor to manage the public's perception of a subject field. The subjects of publicity include people (for example, politicians and performing artists), appurtenances and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment."

The drive to sell products and ideas to the masses has to atomic number 82 to an unprecedented amount of research on human behavior and on the human psyche. Cognitive sciences, psychology, folklore, semiotics, linguistics and other related fields were and even so are extensively researched through well-funded studies.

"No grouping of sociologists tin can gauge the ad teams in the gathering and processing of exploitable social data. The advertising teams have billions to spend annually on research and testing of reactions, and their products are magnificent accumulations of material about the shared experience and feelings of the entire community."
– Marshall McLuhan, The Extensions of Human being

The results of those studies are applied to advertisements, movies, music videos and other media in order to make them equally influential equally possible. The art of marketing is highly calculated and scientific because it must attain both the private and the collective consciousness. In high-budget cultural products, a video is never "merely a video," Images, symbols, and meanings are strategically placed in society to generate a desired effect.

"Information technology is with cognition of the human being, his tendencies, his desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his automatisms equally well equally knowledge of social psychology and analytical psychology that propaganda refines its techniques."
– Propagandes, Jacques Ellul (free translation)

Today's propaganda about never uses rational or logical arguments. It directly taps into a human's virtually primal needs and instincts in order to generate an emotional and irrational response. If we always thought rationally, we probably wouldn't purchase 50% of what we own. Babies and children are constantly found in advertisements targeting women for a specific reason: studies have shown that images of children trigger in women an instinctual need to nurture, to intendance and to protect, ultimately leading to a sympathetic bias towards the advertizing.

Strange old 7up ad using the cuteness of babies

Sexual practice is ubiquitous in mass media, as it draws and keeps the viewer's attention. It direct connects to our animal need to breed and to reproduce, and, when triggered, this instinct can instantly overshadow whatsoever other rational thoughts in our brain.

Subliminal Perception

What if the messages described above were able to reach directly the viewers' subconscious listen, without the viewers fifty-fifty realizing what is happening? That is the goal of subliminal perception. The phrase subliminal advertising was coined in 1957 by the US marketplace researcher James Vicary, who said he could get moviegoers to "beverage Coca-Cola" and "eat popcorn" by flashing those letters onscreen for such a short fourth dimension that viewers were unaware.

"Subliminal perception is a deliberate procedure created by communications technicians, by which you receive and answer to information and instructions without existence consciously aware of the instructions"
– Steve Jacobson, Mind Control in the U.s.a.

This technique is often used in marketing and nosotros all know that sexual practice sells.

Although some sources claim that subliminal advertising is ineffective or even an urban myth, the documented usage of this technique in mass media proves that creators believe in its powers. Recent studies accept also proven its effectiveness, specially when the message is negative.

" A team from University College London, funded past the Wellcome Trust, found that it [subliminal perception] was particularly good at instilling negative thoughts. There has been much speculation about whether people can process emotional information unconsciously, for instance pictures, faces and words," said Professor Nilli Lavie, who led the research. We have shown that people tin can perceive the emotional value of subliminal letters and accept demonstrated conclusively that people are much more than attuned to negative words."
– Source

A famous example of subliminal messaging in political communications is in George Bush's advertizement confronting Al Gore in 2000. Right afterwards the name of Gore is mentioned, the ending of the word "bureaucrats" – "rats" – flashes on the screen for a carve up second.

The discovery of this trickery acquired quite a stir and, fifty-fifty if in that location are no laws against subliminal messaging in the U.Southward., the advertisement was taken off the air.

As seen in many articles on The Vigilant Citizen, subliminal and semi-subliminal letters are ofttimes used in movies and music videos to communicate messages and ideas to the viewers.

Desensitization

In the by, when changes were imposed on populations, they would take to the streets, protest and even riot. The main reason for this clash was due to the fact that the change was clearly announced by the rulers and understood past the population. Information technology was sudden and its effects could conspicuously be analyzed and evaluated. Today, when the elite needs a function of its agenda to be accepted by the public, it is done through desensitization. The agenda, which might get against the public best interests,  is slowly, gradually and repetitively introduced to the world through movies (by involving information technology within the plot), music videos (who brand it cool and sexy) or the news (who present information technology as a solution to today'southward issues). After several years of exposing the masses to a particular agenda, the aristocracy openly presents the concept the globe and, due to mental programming, it is greeted with general indifference and is passively accepted. This technique originates from psychotherapy.

"The techniques of psychotherapy, widely good and accepted equally a means of curing psychological disorders, are likewise methods of controlling people. They can be used systematically to influence attitudes and behavior. Systematic desensitization is a method used to deliquesce anxiety then the patient (public) is no longer troubled by a specific fright, a fear of violence for case. […] People adapt to frightening situations if they are exposed to them enough".
– Steven Jacobson, Mind Control in the Usa

Predictive programming is often found in the scientific discipline fiction genre. It presents a specific image of the future – the one that is desired by the elite – and ultimately becomes in the minds of men an inevitability. A decade ago, the public was being desensitized to war against the Arab world. Today, the population is gradually existence exposed to the beingness of mind control, of transhumanism and of an Illuminati elite. Emerging from the shadows, those concepts are at present everywhere in popular culture. This is what Alice Bailey describes as the "externalization of the hierarchy": the hidden rulers slowly revealing themselves.

Occult Symbolism in Popular Civilisation

Urban center – a movie by the elite, for the aristocracy?

Contrarily to the information presented above, documentation on occult symbolism is rather hard to find. This should non come as a surprise every bit the term "occult", literally means "hidden". Information technology likewise means "reserved to those in the know" as it is merely communicated to those who are deemed worthy of the knowledge. Information technology is non taught in schools nor is it discussed in the media. It is thus considered marginal or even ridiculous by the general population.

Occult knowledge is Not, however, considered ridiculous in occult circles. It is considered timeless and sacred. There is a long tradition of hermetic and occult knowledge beingness taught through hole-and-corner societies originating from aboriginal Egyptians to Eastern Mystics, to the Knights Templar to mod twenty-four hour period Freemasons. Even if the depth of this knowledge was most probably lost throughout the centuries, mystery schools kept their main features, which are highly symbolic, ritualistic and metaphysical. Those characteristics, which were an intricate function of aboriginal civilizations, have totally been evacuated from modern society to be replaced by pragmatic materialism. For this reason, there lies an important gap of understanding betwixt the pragmatic average person and the ritualistic institution.

"If this inner doctrine were always concealed from the masses, for whom a simpler code had been devised, is it not highly probable that the exponents of every aspect of modernistic civilization – philosophic, upstanding, religious, and scientific-are ignorant of the true meaning of the very theories and tenets on which their beliefs are founded? Do the arts and sciences that the race has inherited from older nations muffle beneath their fair exterior a mystery so great that only the virtually illumined intellect can grasp its import? Such is undoubtedly the case."
– Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages

The "simpler lawmaking" devised for the masses used to exist organized religions. It is at present becoming the Temple of the Mass Media and it preaches on a daily basis farthermost materialism, spiritual vacuosity and a self-centered, individualistic existence. This is exactly the opposite of the attributes required to become a truly free private, as taught by all corking philosophical schools of thought. Is a dumbed-down population easier to deceive and to manipulate?

"These bullheaded slaves are told they are "free" and "highly educated" fifty-fifty as they march backside signs that would cause any medieval peasant to run screaming away from them in panic-stricken terror. The symbols that modern man embraces with the naive trust of an infant would be tantamount to billboards reading, 'This way to your decease and enslavement,' to the agreement of the traditional peasant of artifact"
– Michael A. Hoffman Ii, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

In Conclusion

This article examined the major thinkers in the field of mass media, the media ability structure and the techniques used to manipulate the masses. I believe this information is vital to the agreement of the "why" in the topics discussed on The Vigilant Denizen.  The  "mass population" versus "ruling class" dichotomy described in many articles is non a "conspiracy theory" (again, I hate that term), but a reality that has been clearly stated in the works of some of the 20th century's near influential men.

Lippmann, Bernays, and Lasswell have all declared that the public is not fit to decide their own fate, which is the inherent goal of commonwealth. Instead, they called for a cryptocracy, a subconscious government, a ruling class in charge of the "bewildered herd." As their ideas proceed to be applied to society, it is increasingly apparent that an ignorant population is not an obstruction that the rulers must deal with: It is something that is DESIRABLE and, indeed, necessary, to ensure total leadership. An ignorant population does non know its rights, does not seek a greater understanding of issues and does not question authorities. It but follows trends. Pop civilization caters to and nurtures ignorance by continually serving upwardly encephalon-numbing entertainment and spotlighting degenerate celebrities to exist idolized.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will exist."
– Thomas Jefferson

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